Statute of Limitations in Cases of Insidious Diseases

The industrial revolution and technological development have brought concomitant legal problems unheard of at the common law. Fundamental principles of law evolved to incorporate the changes necessary to rule over a new way of life. Some of the problems of industrialization have been solved, others are in a state of flux, while myriad others are as yet unknown. This article concerns itself with one of the incidents of complex industrial progress-insidious disease, as viewed in the light (or dark) of the statute of limitations.